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How can I position myself to join a larger law firm
[00:00:00] Okay. I'm a student at TBE law school joining a smaller boutique firm after law school, where I'll be doing litigation work. Okay. How can I position myself to join a general larger law firm? How long till I begin the interview? Okay, so that's good. There's nothing wrong with joining a small law firm and doing at a boutique, which boutiques typically are the keynote, very good firms.
There's nothing wrong with turning a boutique. And it's probably a good thing because you'll get good experience and in your work will be, are, you'll learn how to do good work there and be mentored and so forth. But the best thing I would recommend doing is, doing the best work you can at that firm working long hours and throwing yourself into it and taking as much feedback or making throw-throwing mistakes and be corrected, and so forth.
And then after a couple of years of that, I would say at least one or two years, you should be in a position to get a job at a larger law firm. One of the things that. Very useful when you start at a, like a small boutique, for example, is you're able to, get a lot of feedback on your work.
You're able [00:01:00] to learn about the environment. You're able to not make the same mistake. You're able to make the mistakes there that you might make in a larger law firm. And then you're able to understand the rules and grow into things. So people mature at different levels. And I don't, there's nothing wrong with maturing later in your career.
And so I definitely would recommend just doing the best you can there and then positioning yourself to, join a larger law firm later, by understanding what you like. The other thing I'd always recommend too is, you, as you learn about different things and work on different types of clients and matters, you should also always keep your eye on the market.
What that means is, you you can I recommend law crossing, but it's of course, a company that I you know, or a recruiter like BCG or someone to send you jobs on an ongoing basis. So you can learn things, but I honestly would recommend getting when you start your first job getting at least a few years of experience even, once you get beyond two or three years, it may become a little bit more difficult if you're boutiques, [00:02:00] not extremely well-known, but I'm getting into a larger law firm after a year or two after a couple of years, you've made the mistakes and things that will help you where you'll get good feedback, but you may not have developed the same sort of habits and things at the largest law firms require.
That's kinda how I position myself and I would work on I would work with the best partners in that firm that you can you typically will have your choice of different types of people you can work with. And I would work with the people that seem like the most demanding and at that firm if I were you.
